'Hackathon' at RIT offers solutions for dilemmas

8:28 PM,
Dec. 2, 2012

Written by

Justin Murphy
Staff writer

For a group of volunteers doing important international philanthropy, the programmers huddled around laptops at Rochester Institute of Technology Sunday were strangely silent.

There was some typing and an occasional whispered conversation in the inscrutable language of computer coding, but mostly the good work - projects that could benefit millions of people locally and around the world - was done in perfect silence.

Empty pizza boxes and two-liter bottles of Mountain Dew paid a messy testament to the programmers' 24 hours of work as part of Random Hacks of Kindness, a six-year-old ...